WordPressWednesday

How to Add Audio Blocks to Your WordPress Site

By Raney Day Design | October 28, 2020

When we think multimedia for websites, it typically conjures thoughts of graphics, photographs, and video. However, adding audio files can be a compelling way to deliver information, instruction, or inspiration to your site visitors. Now, you don’t want to make your page or post an auditory experience without reason (remember…

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Incorporating Video Blocks into Your WordPress Post or Page

By Raney Day Design | October 21, 2020

There are tons of reasons why you’ll want to incorporate videos on your website. In addition to breaking up long blocks of text to engage other senses, consumers report videos are helpful in making purchasing decisions, and 46% of people who view a video take some sort of action afterward.…

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Create a Bulleted or Numbered List in WordPress

By Raney Day Design | October 14, 2020

Lists are helpful for reinforcing key points beneath a paragraph or at the end of an article, highlight features or benefits, and steps in a process. Incorporating lists where content can be arrayed with bullets or numbers also helps the ‘scannability’ (and therefore, readability) of your post. Remember that site…

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Adding a Cover Image Block to a WordPress Page or Post

Adding a Cover Image Block to a WordPress Page or Post

By Raney Day Design | October 7, 2020

The cover image is the first thing visitors see when they land on your webpage or post, so use them to make a great first impression! Why Change the Default Cover Image? You’ve probably heard this before, but your site visitors are going to give you 10 seconds or less to decide…

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Adding Headings to Pages and Posts in the WordPress Editor

By Raney Day Design | September 16, 2020

Heading blocks are placed between sections of text on a page or a post for a variety of reasons. For one, no one likes to look at, much less read, a big ‘wall’ of text. Without headings to break up the text, it looks hard to follow – and dare…

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Adding Blocks in the WordPress Editor

Adding Blocks in the WordPress Editor

By Raney Day Design | August 19, 2020

This edition of WordPress Wednesday takes a closer look at how to add blocks to a WordPress page or post. It turns out, WordPress is super flexible and makes it oh-so simple to add any type of block you need to make your content look amazing! What Are Blocks? Thanks…

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Block Editor Overview

By Raney Day Design | August 12, 2020

With a WordPress site, it’s so simple to add content to your site, and anyone can learn to do it! We want to walk you through the basics of adding pages and posts to your site and arraying your content in a pleasing way.  The editor in WordPress is easy…

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How to Restore a Page on WordPress

By Raney Day Design | August 5, 2020

Who hasn’t deleted something accidentally (or even on purpose, only to change your mind afterward) from their computer or website? Well friend, when it comes to your WordPress website, I have good news for you! WordPress automatically saves everything you’ve sent to the trash for 30 days, so you can…

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Bounce Rate

Understanding Bounce Rates

By Raney Day Design | July 13, 2020

What’s a bounce rate, and why is it important to know? An individual “bounce” is a single-page visit to your site. That is, a visitor arrives on a page on your website and immediately says, “Let’s bounce!” without doing anything else on your site, such as clicking to another page.…

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Why Is Site Speed Important?

Why Is Site Speed Important?

By Raney Day Design | June 20, 2020

If you are noticing that visitors don’t stay on your site for long and are not converting to sales, then one thing that you need to check is your site speed. What is a website site speed and why is it important? Site speed can impact your ranking and can…

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